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R. E. ROBINSN. A cLASH LTGHT ATTACHMENT Foa TRAVELTTTQ BAGS APPLICATION FILED FES. Il, i919.

Patented Nov. 4, 1919.

BIQHARD E. ROBINSON, 0F KANSAS CITY, MISSGUR.

FLASH-LIGHT ATTACHMENT FOR TRAELING-BAGS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. et, 121% .Application filed February 17, 1919. Serial N o. 277,422.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD E. ROBINSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at KansasA City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flash- Light Attachments for Traveling-Bags, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to flash light attachments for traveling bags, and more especially to an attachment to be used asa bulls eye light to facilitate progress in unli hteddistricts, as around country railroadg stations and the like, and my object is to produce an attachment of this character by which it is feasible with a finger Y of the hand carrying the bag, to effect the flashing of the light, and change the direc' tion of the same by simply pointing the 'bag in the desired direction. I

A further object is to produce an attach-r4 ment of this character which shall occupyv but verysmall space in a. traveling bag or the like, which can be made cheaply and economically installed in position, and which is yieldingly supported by theA bag in such manner as to minimize danger of injury' to the lamp in the event of rough contact with an extraneous. object.

With these general objects in View, the invention consists in certain novel and useful features of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter described and v claimed; and in order that it may be fully understood reference is to be' had to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure l, is an end view of a'ordinary hand bag equipped with a flash li ht attachment embodying the invention, t e bag and a part of the equipment being broken away and sectioned respectively, to disclose features of construction otherwise hidden.

Fig. 2, is an' enlarged central vertical section of a part of a bag and equipment, with other parts broken away to disclose features otherwise hidden.

Fig. 3, is a longitudinal section taken substantially inthe plane indicated bysection line III-III ofFig. 2.

In the said drawing, l indicates a traveling hand bag or the like, and 2 the handle thereof. The bag is shown as' provided with the customar angle iron frames 3 and 4 at opposite sides of the mouth or point of opening. i

lso that the battery As customary in hand bags, a clamp' strip 5 is employed to secure the lining of the bag to the angle iron frames 3 and t. The angle iron 3 `is cut away or slotted as at 7, and thelining and clamp strip 5 secured to said angle iron, are likewise cut away to provide an opening 8 registering with opening 7, and projecting into said opening is the end of a spring contact 9, clamped firmly in place between insulation strips 10, by the frame 3 and strip 5, the latter being bent as shown in` F ig. 3 to more firmly clamp the insulation'strips and spring contact in place. f

11 is a hollow housing secured to the outer side of the bag over the opening 7, and secured within said housing .is a spring contact l2, having a rounded or cam lug 13 projecting through an opening in the housing, andadapted under the advance of a -in Fig. 2, and near the bottom of the bag said wireis brought through a hole or opening 6. in the lining and is attached to a spring catch 16 secured in an upright position in a boX 17 extending transversely of and upon the bottom of the bag near one end thereof. A similar spring catch 18 is secured in and near the opposite end of the box, and said catch is electrically connected A .by a wire 19 with a small lamp 20 of the flash light type. This lamp is fitted through a hole 21 in one of the end walls of the bag, and is provided with a flange'22 to bear against said wall yaround said opening, a clamp ring or nut 23 bein secured to the lamp within the bagandq adapted when screwed home to coperate with flange 22 -in clamping the lamp firmly in place. The

said lamp is connected by a wire 2li to lframe 3.v A battery 25 provided with protruding opposite pole pieces 26 and 27, is adapted to be forced down into the box 17, the pole pieces repressing the catches 16,

place through the automatic engagement of the'catches with saidpole pieces. Assuming that the bag is equipped wit the attachment described, it will be apparent that by extending a.

shall be held reliably in nger of the hand from 'l 

